Snow-guard for roofs



(M 0. A. NEUERT.

snow GUARD FOR ROOFS.

No, 272,148. Patented Feb. 13,1883.

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CHARLES A. NEUEBT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS SNOW GUARD FOR ROOFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,148, dated February13, 1883,

Application filed November 24, 1882.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, CHARLES AUGUST NEUERT, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Snow- G uards for Roofs of Houses and other ElevatedStructures; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

The object of myinventionis to prevent snow falling from root's and thusendangering the life and limb of persons passing, and at the same timeso to construct the device as to render it unnecessary to damage theroof or fill it with nail or screw holes in order to attach the guards,thus preventing the possibility of rust around nail or screw holes, andthe consequent falling out of the nails or screws and leakage of theroof, the device being readily applied to roots of all kinds, includingthose of slate or tiles.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents part of a roof with my improvedguards applied to it, and Fig. 2 an enlarged view ofa section of theguards.

I bend a piece of wire, A, so as to form a loop or loops, b, at thecenterof its length, turn suohloop or loops at abouta right angle to theremainder of the wire, bring this remainder into two parallel lines, asshown at c c, and form the extremities into hooks d d, for the purposesof connecting them to the lower bonds, 0 e, of the loops of anothersimilarlybent wire, as plainly shown. When soconnected the hooks d d areclosed tightly enough around the bendsof the loops to prevent their (Nomodel.)

becoming detached. Each piece of wire thus becomes a link of acontinuous chain formed of similarly-bent members of sections, and eachlink has its loop or loops standing upward, as shown, when the device isapplied ,to a roof.

Thevlower end piece of wire has its doubled end bent downward andbackward, as shown atf, so as to hook upon the edge of the roof, and theother end of this series of connected links may be secured to the ridgepole or shingles or other material at the apex or highest part oftheroof by similar books, where the character of the roof permits, or inany convenient manner; or, if need be, by nails or screws, in which casesuch nails or screws would be needed only at these points, and would befew in number, and could readily be covered by a strip of any suitablematerial.

It. is preferable to have the loops or upright parts I) of one set oflinks alternate with those of the other, as shown, the better to holdthe snow. The loops may of course be made or bent to spread laterally asfar as. desired.

From the above it will be evident that itwill be impossible for anylarge body of snow to slide from the roof, and, indeed, for any largebody of it to become detached that in any disposition of small masses toslide ofl there is liability of their becoming arrested by theseuprights b and held back.

.I claim- The described snow-guard for roofs, consisting of a series ofinterlinkedv or connected wires, having upright portions b,substantially as described, and adapted to be applied to a root,substantially as set forth.

CHARLES AUGUST NEUE RT.

\Vitnesses:

EDWARD J. J ONES, EuwAan J. JENKINS.

